Fellow audiophiles, and fortunate Blu2Dave users, I am asking your kind advice.
I am trying to catch up with this very informative thread (currently reading page 65), so I apologize in advance if what I am going to ask is already covered by other posts.
I have recently got a DAVE, which I run via an audio-optimized laptop (see my sig) off batteries, as a headphone DAC-amp driving my Abyss Phi headphones.
My music library is 100% made by files stored on my local SSD, i.e. no CD involved, no streaming services. I do not intend to use ROON and my laptop is not on a (ethernet or wifi) network.
I am in the market for upgrading my source, and here is my question.
Speaking purely in sound quality terms (i.e. not accounting for convenience, flexibility, price, etc.):
a) what in your experience would bring more improvement in my situation, between adding to the DAVE a Blu2 (fed via USB by my current laptop) or an high-end music server like a Zenith MkII SE, Antipodes DX gen 3, SoTM ultra stack etc.?
b) on a Blu2DAVE system, how much further improvement can be obtained by moving from a laptop to a dedicated music server like the ones above?
Thank you in advance!
Simone
I am trying to catch up with this very informative thread (currently reading page 65), so I apologize in advance if what I am going to ask is already covered by other posts.
I have recently got a DAVE, which I run via an audio-optimized laptop (see my sig) off batteries, as a headphone DAC-amp driving my Abyss Phi headphones.
My music library is 100% made by files stored on my local SSD, i.e. no CD involved, no streaming services. I do not intend to use ROON and my laptop is not on a (ethernet or wifi) network.
I am in the market for upgrading my source, and here is my question.
Speaking purely in sound quality terms (i.e. not accounting for convenience, flexibility, price, etc.):
a) what in your experience would bring more improvement in my situation, between adding to the DAVE a Blu2 (fed via USB by my current laptop) or an high-end music server like a Zenith MkII SE, Antipodes DX gen 3, SoTM ultra stack etc.?
b) on a Blu2DAVE system, how much further improvement can be obtained by moving from a laptop to a dedicated music server like the ones above?
Thank you in advance!
Simone